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| Iraqi group threatens Al-Zarqawi over attacks
Quote: BAGHDAD, Iraq - An armed vigilante group threatened on Tuesday to kill Abu Musab al-Zarqawi for anti-insurgency attacks that have killed Iraqis, making the first internal threat against the Jordanian militant with al-Qaida ties.
The emergence of the vigilante group potentially brings a new element into the Iraqi insurgency, highlighting internal opposition to al-Zarqawi.
In a videotape sent to Al-Arabiya television, the previously unknown group, which called itself the "Salvation Movement," ordered al-Zarqawi to leave the country and questioned how he could justify the killing of civilians and his threats to assassinate Allawi.
The video was in the style of those put out by anti-U.S. insurgents: a group of gunmen, faces hidden behind scarves, toting automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenade launchers in front of an Iraqi flag.
But the five gunmen in Tuesday's footage turned their threats against al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian Islamic radical accused in numerous attacks.
One gunman, seated behind a table reading a statement, questioned how al-Zarqawi could use Islam to justify assassinations, kidnappings and the killings of innocents.
"He must leave Iraq immediately, he and his followers and everyone who gives shelter to him and his criminal actions," he said, speaking in an Iraqi accent.
"We swear to Allah that we have started preparing ... to capture him and his allies or kill them and present them as gift to our people," he said. "This is the last warning. If you don't stop, we will do to you what the coalition forces have failed to do."
It was not known if the group was made up of anti-U.S. Iraqi insurgents, gunmen close to the new government or security forces, or a wholly new faction.
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Interesting to see that Iraqi's are quite pissed off about foreigners causing all of these attacks and such. Leads me to believe that the Iraqi people are getting pissed with having their own killed by foreign terrorists. __________________ This space for rent. |
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